CNN: Fact checking Trump's snowstorm tweet

CNN ^ | February 11, 2019 | by Holmes Lybrand (D-CNN)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

During Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar's 2020 announcement speech in the midst of a snowstorm in Minneapolis Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted out a jab toward the senator's statements on global warming.

"Well, it happened again," Trump tweeted, "Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!"

The President has used this sort of rhetoric many, many times during his time in office, suggesting that cold weather somehow disproves the scientific evidence that the planet is warming. But it doesn't quite work that way.

First of all, Trump is conflating two things: weather and global climate. To put it simply, weather is the day-to-day changes in atmospheric conditions, while climate is the weather over the long run in a particular region.

While a snowstorm in Minneapolis in early February is pretty unremarkable, the President has previously pointed to record colds in certain regions as evidence against global warming.

Some scientists, however, believe that it's because of warming that we see more extreme colds as well.

So while we need more research to determine if global warming is causing colder temperatures in some areas in the US, what is clear is that the mere presence of a Minnesota snowstorm in February is not evidence that global warming doesn't exist.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I’m sure that when it was over, she ripped into her staff for the poor planning.

[Revolutionary]

Trump was talking optics dummies.
But by triggering the media into talking about confusing weather with climate change, he just took away all of their efforts to use weather to push climate change. Ha, Ha.

[HotHunt]

".... Some political scientists, however, believe that it's because of warming that we see more extreme colds as well...."

The only "science" in global warming is the political science used to scam the populace.